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If there is evidence for it this does not mean it is true.
Marx says that empirical evidence yields conflicting
results: some evidence suggests that exchange-value is
inherent, and other evidence suggests that it is not. This
contradiction indicates that direct empirical evidence does
not give us the full picture, something else must be going
on beneath the surface. Marx's conclusion from this
conflicting evidence is therefore that exchange-value is the
observable expression of the unobservable social entity
“value”. Value is inherent in the commodity, but its
expression, the exchange-value, is not: exchange-value is
purely relative, it sits between the commodities rather than
inside them. (While value itself sits inside the
commodities.) |
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